Public administration scholarship on race and gender is motivated by normative concerns
about social equity, and dominated by work on bureaucracy and its representativeness …

Promoting race‐aware and gender‐aware scholarship is essential for giving substance to
social equity research. This review and introduction provides an account of one such …

Abstract Research Summary As a policy response to historically strained police–minority
community relations, police diversification is hoped to improve policing outcomes in minority …

Nonprofits are critical partners in the delivery of government‐funded human services in the
US, but there is evidence of a persistent racial leadership gap in the sector, whereby Black …

A long research tradition has argued that representative public servants regularly advocate
for the interests of clients like themselves—whether similarity is based on race, ethnicity, or …

Tensions between police organizations and (community) stakeholders have taken center
stage in recent years, with an escalation in protests and divisive rhetoric observed in many …

Our project investigates the impact of minority bureaucratic and political representation on
the distribution of disciplinary measures in public schools, in contrast with its impact on gifted …

Persisting social inequities and injustices were spotlighted in the United States in 2020 after
the murders of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd. A particular focus on the interactions of …

Do residency requirements change bureaucratic performance? We study the case of
municipal police departments. While residency rules were popular in the 1970s, many cities …

Literature on representative bureaucracy has examined the effects of having bureaucratic
representation at different levels of organizations in various policy areas. Even though …